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Date: 1792

"Beyond the woody Tamar, fancy trac'd; / And, as she spread the glowing tint, it seem'd / No fairy picture: for young hope reliev'd / With golden rays each figure fancy drew"

— Polwhele, Richard (1760-1838)

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Date: 1794

"Now in strong lines, with bolder tints design'd, / You sketch ideas, and portray the mind."

— Bilsborrow, Dewhurst (fl. 1794)

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Date: 1796

"By Locke, true WIT is best defin'd, / Her pleasant pictures lure the mind; / Associations sudden rise, / And seize the fancy by surprise."

— Courtenay, John Lees (1775?-1794)

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Date: w. 1798, 1803-4

"He had perceived the presence and the power / Of greatness, and deep feelings had impressed / Great objects on his mind with portraiture / And colour so distinct that on his mind / They lay like substances, and almost seemed / To haunt the bodily sense."

— Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)

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Date: 1809, 1812

"Or through some fairy palace fancy roves, / And studs, with ruby lamps, the fretted roof / Or paints with every colour of the bow / Spotless parterres, all freakt with snow-white flowers, / Flowers that no archetype in nature own."

— Graham, James (1765-1811)

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Date: 1817

"The lights and shades, in contrast due, / Relieve each other in the view: / Alike the moral painter's part / T'obey the rules of studious art; / Thus to attract the mental eye / With height'ning variety;-- / And as the pencil truly gives / Each form that on the canvas lives, / To make his pen ad...

— Combe, William (1742 -1823)

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Date: 1819

Some dreams "more strong, abiding figures draw / 'Upon the brain, and we assert 'I saw;'"

— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)

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Date: 1819

In sleep the fancy may place "A powerful likeness of a form and face" on the organs

— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)

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Date: 1868

"Thy lovely portraiture we find / Engraven on our heart."

— Wesley, John and Charles

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Date: 1868

"So deeply engraven I find / Thy form on my desolate heart!"

— Wesley, John and Charles

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The Mind is a Metaphor is authored by Brad Pasanek, Assistant Professor of English, University of Virginia.